South African online retailer Takealot has launched its new flagship collection facility in Richmond Park, Cape Town, a culmination of a multifaceted investment that brings together technological innovation and uniquely South African artwork under one roof.

2.1. Few decisions have more long-lasting strategic implications than facility location decisions. Using your understanding of managerial decision-making for location analysis, discuss the main steps involved in a facility location managerial decision-making process

2.2. Deciding upon the location for Takealot's collection facility has long-term cost implications. Using your understanding of managerial decision-making for location analysis and assuming that personal subjective preference of the owners played a negligible role in the location decision-making, discuss any five (5) objective cost factors that probably informed Takealot's choice of Richmond Park, Cape Town as the preferred location of it new the collection facility. In your discussion, provide a brief introduction and relate each cost factor to Takealot's collection facility at Richmond Park, Cape Town.

 

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